An Inventory of Losses

by Judith Schalansky

Book Overview

Each disparate object described in this book--a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific--shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, or Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and, taken as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811229637
• ISBN13: 9780811229630
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.9" x 8.0"